I'm a psychie nurse, who worked in London, who's a manic-depressive, I was an involuntary in-patient for several months in 2009 in a manic-psychotic episode (elation, delusions, paranoia, chaotic, irrational decision making) In poetry terms, writing on & off nearly 40 years and major degree areas were English literature and history. Only over the last year have I been writing a lot. I have to get the words out of my head, and that is why I write. I'm pedantic ( meticulous or anal - been called both), I'll spend hours on word order, a word, a punctuation mark. After medically retiring, I live now in Lincolnshire, England.